Improvement in moulding-machines



@nimh giedre gewent @Him IMPROVEMENT IN MOULDING-MAGHINES.

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'lO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, OLIVER H. PERRY, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have invonted a, certain new and useful Combined Moulding and sawing-Machine; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of. thisspeeication.

. My invention consists of an arrangement of sawing and moulding-devices, by which mouldings can be sawn out and shaped on the same table and at one Operation. The accompanying drawingis a perspective view, partly in section, of-a machine embodying my invention.

A is the frame ofthe machine, and A the top or table, partly out away to exhibit the saw-adjusting devices. B is a vertical cuttcr-shaft, suitablyjournalled in the frame, and fitted with a separable cutter-head C C and cutter D. This cutter-shaft is operated by a quartering-belt from counter-shaft E, journalled, as shown, in

' the frame. The shaft E is driven by belt F and pulley G, and carries another pulley H, for giving motion to'thc eeonomizing in labor and repairs, and requiring lessspace to produce any given amount of i sets of machines for the purpose in present use. I do not desire to confine myself to the e saw through belt I and horizontal saw-spindle'J. The table A is slotted ata, in theordinary way, to accommodate the saw, and provided with the customary saw-table guides K L. The spindle J of the saw M is journalled in the laterally-adjustable sliding carriage N, which rests upon the timbers O, and is confined to a path across 'the frame by recesses ain the table A', and by bar n which stretches across the carriage, and passes through apertures in timbers O. `The carriage N and saw M areadjusted laterally in any desired relation to the position of the fixed cutter-shaft B, by means 'of the screw P, which is'conned to a rotary path in the plate Q by collars p, and is tapped'into the carriage at p. The screw P also serves to hold the carriage in any position to which it may be adjusted.

This combined machine enables the mouldings to be cut and shaped by one operation, thus very materially mouldings than any I xact arrangement of parts as described, the invention admitting of some little modification; as, for instance, the shafts may in some cases be reversed in position, the cutter-shaft being horizontal, and the saw-spindle vertical.

I am aware that a' cutter-head for rounding the edge of a board and a saw for sawing a barrel-hoop, when so formed therefrom, have been used, and such devices I do not broadly claim, but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The cutter-head C', adjustable guides L and K, slotted table A', and saw M, when arranged in relation to each other, and operating substantially as and for the purpose described. In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

OLIVER H. PERRY.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAiv. 

